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[[underlined]] Ball Game [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. [[/underlined]] 9 - Notice of a Baseball Game was posted on the door of the log cabin for some time, aspirants being asked to sign their names, & between times the camp was interviewed individually & urged to take part, no matter how much or little they knew of the game.  Before the appointed hour girls were hurrying around among the tents getting red or blue ribbons tied on their arms.
The athletic field in the nearest open space, [[insertion]] reached [[/insertion]] by a walk through the woods - the barnyard of the farmer who supplies camp with milk etc. & whose wife does the camp laundry.  
The Blues arrived first & stood around waiting for the Reds.  Finally a procession emerged from the woods led by a tall young woman (Miss Madeira, Prin. of a Girls' School) wearing a [[insertion]] red [[/insertion]] paper breastplate & carrying a pole topped with ferns & bearing a red bandana. With head up the leader of the procession advanced with martial air, ^[[insertion]] as they all were [[/insertion]] singing the Marsellaise - 'on to victory.'
Mr. Norton & John - camp Suptdt. & Camp Boy  were Captains of the 2 nines, & when the places